Feministički kutak

[Dybuk]

Mda, mozda djed ima neka vazna posla ovde, samo se to ne vidi na prvi...drugi....200ti pogled i meni vise lici na zabavu trolovanje.

[МртавОзбиљан]

Ja sam mislio da je ovo kutak za zajebanciju na ovom forumu?

[Josephine]

 

Pa šta znam. U naslovu teme piše "feministički kutak", a ne "zajebantski kutak". Ali carry on, vojniče. Total freedom.

[МртавОзбиљан]

Pa šta znam. U naslovu teme piše "feministički kutak", a ne "zajebantski kutak". Ali carry on, vojniče. Total freedom.

ok. +2 zenska uva za tebe!

[Dybuk]

Ja sam mislio da je ovo kutak za zajebanciju na ovom forumu?

Ne bas, ne. Ali jeste podforum zabave i dokolice. Mada, rece da ti nisi ovde zbog zabave? A sad tvrdis da se zajebavas? Which one is it?
Potpuno je u redu zabavljati se na forumu sto se mene tice, ja to uglavnom i radim, a ti se dogovori sa sobom je li dza ili bu

[Boban]

kakav je bre ovo kokošinjac... čovek tresne nogom u vrata i lupi o sto i eto ti sve ženskice poskakuju kao u vilinom kolu...

[Josephine]

Kao, fol, ne poznajete se ti i MrtvoOzbiljni? Ha.

[Dybuk]

Bobane

Resenje je jednostavno: ne treskati nogom u vrata i ne lupati o sto

[saturnica]

kakav je bre ovo kokošinjac... čovek tresne nogom u vrata i lupi o sto i eto ti sve ženskice poskakuju kao u vilinom kolu...

-3 majmunske dlake, sto bi reko MrtavOzbiljan. Jos nismo sve poskakale u vrzinom kolu kako znamo i umijemo...

[МртавОзбиљан]

Ja sam mislio da je ovo kutak za zajebanciju na ovom forumu?

Ne bas, ne. Ali jeste podforum zabave i dokolice. Mada, rece da ti nisi ovde zbog zabave? A sad tvrdis da se zajebavas? Which one is it?
Potpuno je u redu zabavljati se na forumu sto se mene tice, ja to uglavnom i radim, a ti se dogovori sa sobom je li dza ili bu

Pa nisam dosao da se zabavljam na fourumu ali mogu valjda malo zaebancije  na podforumu predvidjenom za to. malo. a i dobih sad dozvolu od D.
-1 zensko uvo za tebe.

[Dybuk]

A zasto si dosao? Ovde si po sluzbenoj duznosti?

[МртавОзбиљан]

kakav je bre ovo kokošinjac... čovek tresne nogom u vrata i lupi o sto i eto ti sve ženskice poskakuju kao u vilinom kolu...

-3 majmunske dlake, sto bi reko MrtavOzbiljan. Jos nismo sve poskakale u vrzinom kolu kako znamo i umijemo...

Ih sad, pa zaebancija bez ozbiljnosti je banalna. Nije red da se vrijedjamo. Svaki covjek zna da 1 zensko uvo vrijedi 0.5 muske glave iliti
2 zenska uva = 1 muska glava.
to su ti vrijednosti a dlake idu u stotinama ne isplati se tako konvertovati 

[МртавОзбиљан]

A zasto si dosao? Ovde si po sluzbenoj duznosti?

Volim sf iz mladosti ima tu fino nesto da se cita na ovom forumu... a i ostarjelo se pa da se vratim u stos, a i da vidim kako vi mladi i mlade razmisljate, valja se... evo na primjer ova D. domaci sf drzi vrlo nisko dok tebe jos nisam provalio.

[saturnica]

kakav je bre ovo kokošinjac... čovek tresne nogom u vrata i lupi o sto i eto ti sve ženskice poskakuju kao u vilinom kolu...

-3 majmunske dlake, sto bi reko MrtavOzbiljan. Jos nismo sve poskakale u vrzinom kolu kako znamo i umijemo...

Ih sad, pa zaebancija bez ozbiljnosti je banalna. Nije red da se vrijedjamo. Svaki covjek zna da 1 zensko uvo vrijedi 0.5 muske glave iliti
2 zenska uva = 1 muska glava.
to su ti vrijednosti a dlake idu u stotinama ne isplati se tako konvertovati 

Koga briga jel se isplati ili ne? Rekosmo da se zajebavamo iako ovdje nismo samo zbog toga. Primarno je edukacija, informiranost, znanje, SF/F, knjizevnost, kultura, film itd.. Znaci ako ti mozes bodovati u uvima mogu ja i u Adamovim dlacicama... Nema tu nikakvog vrijedjanja. Dlake su dlake, a uvo je samo uvo..

[Dybuk]

dok tebe jos nisam provalio.

Pa, kad se ne mices iz ovog podforuma!!!

Fairy muff ali dok ne budes ucinio svoj ozbiljan posao (nasuprot zabavi) vidljivim: pises/objavljujes/reklamiras svoje delo, kupujes/prodajes stripove, u istom si sosu kao i mi sto se samo "zabavljamo"

[МртавОзбиљан]

dok tebe jos nisam provalio.

Pa, kad se ne mices iz ovog podforuma!!!

Fairy muff ali dok ne budes ucinio svoj ozbiljan posao (nasuprot zabavi) vidljivim: pises/objavljujes/reklamiras svoje delo, kupujes/prodajes stripove, u istom si sosu kao i mi sto se samo "zabavljamo"

Alo jadna sto oces sad da avetam kroz citav forum i da pisem samo PROCITAO kada procitam.
ok.

[Dybuk]

Ti si iz mog posta izveo TAJ zakljucak? OK

[МртавОзбиљан]

Ti si iz mog posta izveo TAJ zakljucak? OK

Da pisem/objavljujem/reklamiram svoje djelo - ne zelim, nemam potrebu.
Da kupujem prodajem stripove - nemam potrebu, moj rodjak ima preko 10 000 stripova vise mi ih je proslo kroz ruku i kroz glavu no vecini na forumu.
Znaci jedino mi ostaje da citam, komentarisem i zajebavam se ovuda. ovo drugo cu izgleda morati vise da me ne prozivate.

[Boban]

Evo ovde lepo piše da su rođaci sa ženske strane, iako teorijski podjednaki, u praksi manje cenjeni:
http://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/index.php?topic=9831.0

[Boban]

Kao, fol, ne poznajete se ti i MrtvoOzbiljni? Ha.

Zaista ne znam ko je čovek.
Možda je stvaran, možda je fejk... Ako je fejk, onda nema mnogo kandidata.
Ako je stvaran, onda je previše uredan; svaki post, ali doslovno svaki je posledica identične procedure, što može da znači da je lik opsesivno komulsivan ili da se trudi da ne napravi kiks koji bi ga odao.
Postoji još jedna mogućnost, ali o njoj pokušavam da ne razmišljam u ovom trenutku...

[Ghoul]

feminista u meni dobio je jednu zaista retko viđenu odu ženskome koja nije šuplja, glupa niti iritirajuća, već u kojoj se snaga, šarm i lepota ženskog bića slave na adekvatan filmski način:

http://ljudska_splacina.rs/2011/02/memories-of-matsuko-2006.html

[Boban]

Da li je ovo feminizam ili zloupotreba ženskog tela?

[Josephine]

Sigurna sam da muški skeleti nemaju "poze" na posterima i u anatomskim atlasima. Ovo je, kao, malo stilizovano, ali bez ikakve nužde da to bude. Nije ni feminizam, ni zloupotreba, već promašeni pokušaj autora da poster dobije na estetici.

[Boban]

meni je baš super, ti si potpuno nemaštovita...

[МртавОзбиљан]

Kao, fol, ne poznajete se ti i MrtvoOzbiljni? Ha.

Zaista ne znam ko je čovek.
Možda je stvaran, možda je fejk... Ako je fejk, onda nema mnogo kandidata.
Ako je stvaran, onda je previše uredan; svaki post, ali doslovno svaki je posledica identične procedure, što može da znači da je lik opsesivno komulsivan ili da se trudi da ne napravi kiks koji bi ga odao.
Postoji još jedna mogućnost, ali o njoj pokušavam da ne razmišljam u ovom trenutku...

На кутку за захебанцију наћераћете ме да будем МртавОзбиљан... Ништа мени ово није јасно више ни сам не знам јесам ли стваран, стваран уредно компулсиван или опсесиван или сам фејк или превише уредан. Ово задње сигурно нисам 
А што ти размишљаш о могућностима и идентификацији када тај проблем лако можеш да ријешиш! Колико сам скапирао ти си свемоћни супермодератор - питаш ме поруком како се зовем и ја ти одговорим  дам линк мога фејсбучења или мобилнога свеједно, и ријешиш себи проблем.
Ја и нисам крио свој идентитет ка феминисткиња женственост, то су ове женскиње измислиле да сам неки бивши члан који им ваљда недостаје па се узврпољиле што знам ја. Овој Д. сам на прозивку да лажем, да сам-нисам фејк, понудио и да се видимо; на шта је она мислила... сам бог зна што оне мисле. ето.

[Boban]

ja nemam nikakav problem... ako si fejk, onda moram reći da sam samo jednom u životu sreo lažni nik ovakve autentičnosti.
Dakle, il si skroz gore il si tamo gde treba.

[Boban]

Inače, mic po mic, žene osvajaju nove horizonte: http://www.putujsigurno.rs/svet-putovanja/seks-turizam-sve-cesce-pojava-i-kod-zena?utm_source=ps&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=if

[Josephine]

meni je baš super, ti si potpuno nemaštovita...

Meni je ovaj poster super samo utoliko što se na takvim posterima najčešće predstavlja muški skelet. Zato mi smeta što je ženski morao da bude u pozama, pogotovo jer su razlike između muškog i ženskog skeleta minorne. A maštovitost i određena vrsta ženstvenosti rezervisani su za privatan život i bliskost, šta će to na anatomskom posteru? Pa valjda ima dovoljno pornića i objektivizacije žena unaokolo?

Овој Д. сам на прозивку да лажем, да сам-нисам фејк, понудио и да се видимо; на шта је она мислила... сам бог зна што оне мисле. ето.

Mislila je kako joj je crnogorski akcenat dosadio u studentskom domu još. 

[МртавОзбиљан]

D.

Mislila je kako joj je crnogorski akcenat dosadio u studentskom domu još. 

А мак'се јадна, што нерече одма да су те та пашчад нагрдила. Сад је мени јасно што си ти профеминисткињила; све то треба проћерат из Србије ту багру. Због таквих    олоша те изгубисмо ка на картама а ђе би ти крај био...

[džin tonik]

forza italia! bravissimo. svaka im cast, ima nade za planetu.

Talijan podigao tužbu protiv supruge: Nije dovoljno kuhala i spremala, te poslove je odrađivala vrlo slabo!

Talijanka bi mogla biti osuđena na gotovo šest mjeseci zatvora i to zbog najbizarnijeg (sic!) razloga za koji ste ikad čuli.

Sirotu (sic!) je ženu tužio suprug (bivši, ako to već nije) zbog toga što nije dovoljno spremala i kuhala. Po njegovim mjerilima, pretpostavljamo. Kako piše Daily Mail , 40-godišnja žena iz Sonnina u pokrajini Lacij, optužena je za 'zanemarivanje obitelji'.

Njezin je muž rekao da je 'vrlo slabo odrađivala kućanske poslove'.

Suđenje počinje u listopadu i postoji mogućnost da dobije prilično dugačku zatvorsku kaznu, izvještava The Local .

Prema sudskim dokumentima 47-godišnji se muž osjeća 'povrijeđeno' zato što je zanemarila čišćenje kuće, a u službenom je iskazu rekao da je bio prisiljen 'živjeti u lošim higijenskim uvjetima'. On tvrdi da 'zanemarivanje traje dvije godine' te da joj uporno kupuje hranu za kuhanje koja završava u smeću jer mu žena rijetko kuha.

Usto, navodno ga je izbacila iz spavaće sobe što, pretpostavljamo, nikoga nije pretjerano iznenadilo (sic!).

[saturnica]

pa nije se valjda udala da kuha i sprema! nisam znala da si takav zosko. razočarana....

[džin tonik]

nisam strucan, nekako polazim od sebe, preslikavam. ja bih svom muskarcu kuhao, spremao. jednostavno sam brizan kad se zaljubim, pa pomislim da sve zene tako.

[Boban]

zosko, ako ubaciš još jednu aluziju da si peder, banovaću te...

[Dybuk]

Ma kakvi, aludir'o da je zena

[МртавОзбиљан]

Ma kakvi, aludir'o da je zena

Pa nek stavi neki zenski avatar kad je feminist, ovaj urokljivi me ubi 

[Dybuk]

Ne. Meni se svidja, to ti je Monti Pajton jadan, kao Buks of Knjige samo malo slabiji.

[МртавОзбиљан]

Ne. Meni se svidja, to ti je Monti Pajton jadan, kao Buks of Knjige samo malo slabiji.

Buks of knjige? Sta ti gledas i slusas...

[Ghoul]

[džin tonik]

Ma kakvi, aludir'o da je zena

Pa nek stavi neki zenski avatar kad je feminist, ovaj urokljivi me ubi 

ah, kad sam vec mogao mijenjati na dibucccin upit, sto ne bih i za tvoju dushu.
evo, jedan u duhu teme cookinga.
ti boduj koliko vrijedi ushiju, pa mi javi kad se skupi za ogrlicu, kenjo.

[Dybuk]

Matel je izbacio nove Barbike, sa mnogo većim u varijetetom telesnoj građi i tonu kože. Takođe, nove Barbike su predsednici, špijuni, dizajneri video igara...

Meet Hijarbie

Haneefa Adam, pictured, says she was inspired to create the Hijarbie account after coming across the Barbie Style Instagram page.

She told CNN: "I thought I had not seen Barbie dressed in a hijab before so I decided to open an Instagram account and dressed Barbie up in the clothes that I made. I thought it was really important for a doll to be dressed like how I would be."

The 24-year-old, who recently completed a Masters in Pharmacology in the UK, describes Hijarbie as a "modest doll" -- one that offers Muslim girls a relatable role model.

"It has roots in my religion and cultural identity. The way Barbie dresses is very skimpy and different and there's nothing wrong with it. I just wanted to give another option for Muslim girls like me.

[Meho Krljic]

Eyes on Kennedy, Women Tell Supreme Court Why Abortion Was Right for Them

WASHINGTON — Amy Brenneman, an actress, wants Justice Anthony M. Kennedy to know about the abortion she had when she was a 21-year-old college junior.
Taking a page from the movement for same-sex marriage, Ms. Brenneman and more than 100 other women have filed several supporting briefs in a major Supreme Court abortion case to be argued on Wednesday. The briefs tell the stories of women who say their abortions allowed them to control their bodies, plan for the future and welcome children into their lives when their careers were established and their personal lives were on solid ground.
The briefs are aimed largely at Justice Kennedy, who holds the crucial vote in abortion cases. They use language and concepts from his four major gay rights decisions, notably his invocation of "equal dignity" in June's ruling establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
"Why has marriage equality gained so much ground, and reproductive justice seems to be losing so much ground?" Ms. Brenneman, known for her roles on "NYPD Blue" and "Judging Amy," said in an interview. Partly, she said, because gay couples have come out of the shadows but many women still believe abortions to be shameful secrets.
The briefs seek to counter that, as well as what some people saw as a streak of uninformed paternalism in a 2007 majority opinion in which Justice Kennedy said many women regretted their decisions to have abortions and experienced depression and plunging self-esteem
But Allan E. Parker Jr., a lawyer with the anti-abortion group the Justice Foundation, said the women's briefs may only alienate Justice Kennedy.
"The abortion industry is trying to make it sound like abortion is a joyful experience," he said. "But even women who say it was necessary say it was not joyful. It is a grief and a blackness, and it changes you."
Mr. Parker filed a brief on behalf of more than 3,000 women, many identified by their first names or initials, who say they suffered psychological or physical harm from their abortions.
"Because abortion is such a difficult and painful decision," the brief said, "the initial reaction may be relief because the trauma of the actual event is over and the decision making process is over, but that may sow the seeds of trauma and emotional injury that lasts for decades."
Helen J. Knowles, the author of "The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty," said she had her doubts about appealing to Justice Kennedy by using personal stories.
"I suspect that taking that approach is not going to get much traction with Justice Kennedy," she said. "I'm just not convinced that this is the right way to come at him in this case."
The better approach, one taken in many other briefs, she said, is to focus on the obstacles created by the Texas law rather than on general conceptions of motherhood. Wednesday's case, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, No. 15-274, concerns a challenge to a restrictive Texas law brought by several abortion clinics in the state. They say the law could reduce the number of clinics in Texas to about 10 from roughly 40 by requiring doctors who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and requiring clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
The court's balance of power has shifted with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but abortion rights advocates will almost certainly still have to secure Justice Kennedy's vote to win the case. A 4-to-4 tie would automatically affirm an appeals court decision that sustained the restrictions with minor exceptions.
Justice Kennedy's abortion jurisprudence is muddled.
In 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, he joined Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David H. Souter in a joint opinion that reaffirmed the core of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life," the joint opinion said, in a passage that only Justice Kennedy could have drafted.
But Justice Kennedy's reputation as an abortion rights champion is undeserved, said David S. Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University. "He has only once found an abortion restriction unconstitutional in his 28 years on the Supreme Court," Professor Cohen said, while allowing 20 other restrictions to go into effect.
In 2007, Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, supplementing his legal analysis with observations about motherhood.
"Respect for human life finds an ultimate expression in the bond of love the mother has for her child," he wrote, adding: "While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow."
Janice Mac Avoy, a lawyer with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, said the passage troubled her. "It was incredibly paternalistic," she said.
She told her story in a brief signed by 113 female lawyers who said they did not regret their abortions.
"I was 18 years old, in high school, outside of St. Louis," Ms. Mac Avoy said in an interview. "I was about to be the first person in my family to graduate from high school. And I had a scholarship to college, and I knew that I wanted to go to law school. And I knew that being a mother was not compatible with any of those things at that time in my life."
Ms. Brenneman also said Justice Kennedy's musings about regret were misguided.
"It is patronizing," she said. "It is saying that women are not capable of knowing their own mental health. And 95 percent of women do not regret it, so this is an opportunity to set the math straight."
In her own case, Ms. Brenneman said she was a 21-year-old junior at Harvard when her birth control failed and she had an abortion. "It allowed me to choose when to become a mother," she said. "As a mother now, I know I was correct at 21."
"I didn't have a college degree," she said. "I didn't have an income. I didn't have a marriage. I didn't have anything a child needs. And I didn't want it."
Professor Cohen, who has filed a brief supporting the Texas clinics, said the women's briefs were unusual in focusing on real-life narratives.
"They are not addressing any legal principle but are trying to get inside Justice Kennedy's head that women are moral agents who make decisions and that regret is not something that should be part of his thinking," Professor Cohen said. "It was clearly part of his thinking in 2007."
Michael J. Dell, a lawyer with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel who represents Ms. Brenneman and other women, said it was worth reminding the justices that abortions are common.
"There shouldn't be a stigma," he said. "A third of women have abortions. Many of the people that Supreme Court justices know and socialize with, and their children and friends, have had abortions, and they're probably totally unaware of it."
Alexia D. Korberg, a lawyer with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who represents the female lawyers, said her work on a major gay rights case had informed the legal strategy in the abortion case.
"We had seen just how powerful humanizing issues that can seem abstract can be, not just for the justices but for everyone, and how powerful empathy can be," Ms. Korberg said.
However effective such an approach may be, much of the attention at the Supreme Court on Wednesday will be focused on Justice Kennedy, as often happens and for good reason. "One man's perception of abortion is what matters the most here," Professor Cohen said.

[Father Jape]

http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/advice/a9641/things-men-dont-know-about-women-caitlin-moran/

[Father Jape]

http://fusion.net/story/280614/the-myth-of-the-male-libido/

[Meho Krljic]

    Ovo je moglo i na maskulinistički kutak, mada muškarci to već znaju, ali ima ovde i dečaka 

[Meho Krljic]

Hmm.



As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops

And there was substantial evidence that employers placed a lower value on work done by women. "It's not that women are always picking lesser things in terms of skill and importance," Ms. England said. "It's just that the employers are deciding to pay it less."
A striking example is to be found in the field of recreation — working in parks or leading camps — which went from predominantly male to female from 1950 to 2000. Median hourly wages in this field declined 57 percentage points, accounting for the change in the value of the dollar, according to a complex formula used by Professor Levanon. The job of ticket agent also went from mainly male to female during this period, and wages dropped 43 percentage points.
The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points). The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige.
While the pay gap has been closing, it remains wide. Over all, in fields where men are the majority, the median pay is $962 a week — 21 percent higher than in occupations with a majority of women, according to another new study, published Friday by Third Way, a research group that aims to advance centrist policy ideas.
Today, differences in the type of work men and women do account for 51 percent of the pay gap, a larger portion than in 1980, according to definitive new research by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, economists at Cornell.
Women have moved into historically male jobs much more in white-collar fields than in blue-collar ones. Yet the gender pay gap is largest in higher-paying white-collar jobs, Ms. Blau and Mr. Kahn found. One reason for this may be that these jobs demand longer and less flexible hours, and research has shown that workers are disproportionately penalized for wanting flexibility.
Of the 30 highest-paying jobs, including chief executive, architect and computer engineer, 26 are male-dominated, according to Labor Department data analyzed by Emily Liner, the author of the Third Way report. Of the 30 lowest-paying ones, including food server, housekeeper and child-care worker, 23 are female dominated.
Many differences that contributed to the pay gap have diminished or disappeared since the 1980s, of course. Women over all now obtain more education than men and have almost as much work experience. Women moved from clerical to managerial jobs and became slightly more likely than men to be union members. Both of these changes helped improve wage parity, Ms. Blau's and Mr. Kahn's research said.
Yes, women sometimes voluntarily choose lower-paying occupations because they are drawn to work that happens to pay less, like caregiving or nonprofit jobs, or because they want less demanding jobs because they have more family responsibilities outside of work. But many social scientists say there are other factors that are often hard to quantify, like gender bias and social pressure, that bring down wages for women's work.
Ms. England, in other research, has found that any occupation that involves caregiving, like nursing or preschool teaching, pays less, even after controlling for the disproportionate share of female workers.
After sifting through the data, Ms. Blau and Mr. Kahn concluded that pure discrimination may account for 9 percent of the gender pay gap. Discrimination could also indirectly cause an even larger portion of the pay gap, they said, for instance, by discouraging women from pursuing high-paying, male-dominated careers in the first place.
"Some of it undoubtedly does represent the preferences of women, either for particular job types or some flexibility, but there could be barriers to entry for women and these could be very subtle," Ms. Blau said. "It could be because the very culture and male dominance of the occupation acts as a deterrent."
For example, social factors may be inducing more women than men to choose lower-paying but geographically flexible jobs, she and Mr. Kahn found. Even though dual-career marriages are now the norm, couples are more likely to choose their location based on the man's job, since men earn more. This factor is both a response to and a cause of the gender pay gap.
Some explanations for the pay gap cut both ways. One intriguing issue is the gender difference in noncognitive skills. Men are often said to be more competitive and self-confident than women, and according to this logic, they might be more inclined to pursue highly competitive jobs.
But Ms. Blau warned that it is impossible to separate nature from nurture. And there is evidence that noncognitive skills, like collaboration and openness to compromise, are benefiting women in today's labor market. Occupations that require such skills have expanded much more than others since 1980, according to research by David J. Deming at Harvard University. And women seem to have taken more advantage of these job opportunities than men.
Still, even when women join men in the same fields, the pay gap remains. Men and women are paid differently not just when they do different jobs but also when they do the same work. Research by Claudia Goldin, a Harvard economist, has found that a pay gap persists within occupations. Female physicians, for instance, earn 71 percent of what male physicians earn, and lawyers earn 82 percent.
It happens across professions: This month, the union that represents Dow Jones journalists announced that its female members working full time at Dow Jones publications made 87 cents for every dollar earned by their full-time male colleagues.
Colleen Schwartz, a Dow Jones spokeswoman said, "We remain absolutely committed to fostering an inclusive work environment."
Certain policies have been found to help close the remaining occupational pay gap, including raising the minimum wage, since more women work at the lowest end of the pay scale. Paid family leave helps, too.
Another idea, Ms. Liner of Third Way said, is to give priority to people's talents and interests when choosing careers, even if it means going outside gender norms, for instance encouraging girls to be engineers and boys to be teachers. "There's nothing stopping men and women from switching roles and being a maid versus a janitor except for social constructs," she said.

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Computer programmer: one of the largest gender wage gaps among all professions

Female computer programmers make 72 cents for every dollar earned by male programmers.

That difference is after researchers adjust for factors such as age, education, years of experience, job title, employer and location, according to a new study by Glassdoor, the jobs and recruiting marketplace, which looked at salary data of more than 500,000 people over 140 professions.

The well known U.S. wage gender gap is 76 cents for every dollar men earn. But women earn 94.6 cents for every man's dollar after adjusting for all factors other than gender. In other words, the wage gap in the U.S. is about 5.4 percent.

The tech industry wage gap was the source of much discussion over at Quartz this month after a post headlined "There is no wage gap in tech salaries" about a new study.

The upshot: For male and female engineers one year after graduation, they make the same amount.

Part of the explanation for the large computer programmer wage gap, said Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor, is that these are the scientific programmers, "people who would do coding with mainframe computing or other scientific related computing. It's one of the older profession."

How do other tech industry professions stack up?

For every dollar a man in this role earns, this is how much a woman makes:
>Game Artist – $0.84
Information Security Specialist – $0.85
Data Specialist – $0.76
Software Architect – $0.89
SEO Strategist – $0.90
Front End Engineer – $0.90
Database Engineer – $0.90
Sharepoint Developer – $0.91
SAP Developer – $0.92

On the upside, two professions in great demand show women doing at or better than the national average:
Software Engineer – $0.94 Mobile Developer – $0.97
On the downside, as tech jobs open up in other fields such as health care and media, the gender wage gap increases there, Chamberlain said.

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Tech firms have an obsession with "female" digital servants, and this needs to change

Alexa, Tay, Siri, Cortana, Xiaoice, and Google Now. These technologies all have one thing in common - they are digital servants aimed at a mass-market audience that feature a "female" voice or persona.
Am I the only one that thinks that this more than a little creepy?
No doubt you've also noticed that I've been putting the word "female" inside quotes, and that's very deliberate on my part. Despite how these technology solutions are packages to look, sound, or in the case of Tay and Xiaoice, behave, these digital characters are not female. It's all a fake.
A façade.
Fiction.
They are not a "they" at all, or for that matter, a "she." Instead, it's code that's been programmed to have a "female" persona.
Note: In some territories, such as the UK, the default persona for Siri is "male."
I find this doubly strange given the huge gender workforce disparity found within technology firms that these companies would choose to create digital assistants and chat bots that seem to be almost exclusively "female."
Based on figures released for 2015, the gender breakdown for the tech workforce (as opposed to the workforce as a whole) at Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon was as follows:

   
• Microsoft: 83.0% male | 16.9% female
• Google: 82.0% male | 18.0% female
• Apple: 79.0% male | 22.0% female
• Amazon*: 61.0% male | 39.0% female

(* these are figures for the company as a whole as Amazon didn't break down its workforce figures into different sectors)
So not only do we have code that's been programmed with a "female" persona, but that code has originated from companies where the workforce is overwhelmingly male.
And it's not just the voice or persona of the digital persona we interact with that is biased. The results of those interactions also demonstrate male favouritism. It took Apple more than four years to fix Siri's responses to questions about abortion services, and yet the company didn't seem to have any problem programming Siri to search for prostitutes and Viagra.
This is a side of Siri that Apple didn't highlight in any of its commercials.
In the words of freelance journalist Amanda Marcotte, "Siri behaves much like a retrograde male fantasy of the ever-compliant secretary: discreet, understanding, willing to roll with any demand a man might come up with, teasingly accepting of dirty jokes."
Now, don't ask me whether giving digital servants "female" traits objectifies women, that's an issue I'm going to leave to those who are better qualified than I to discuss (I'm particularly interested in hearing what women think about this). I'm also going to avoid commenting on whether this is a form of sexism (again, that's far outside my area of expertise). That said, this is 2016, and tech firms are still holding events at which women are hired to wear revealing costumes and dance on podiums. Yes, this happened at a Microsoft Game Developers Conference just the other month. And while promises were later made to "do better in the future," this is still a thing that happened in 2016.
Diversity and inclusion are, sadly, still a very real problem for even the biggest and highest-profile tech firms. And it's plainly leading companies to still make some disappointing and regressive choices.
Think this is a new phenomenon? It isn't.
Back in the 1990s, Wildfire Communications developed a digital "secretary" that featured a "female" voice and persona that was revolutionary for its time. Every in-car GPS receiver I've owned -- and I've owned a lot of those -- has come with a "female" voice as the default. The reason for this, or so I've been told, dates back to World War II, when female voices were used for airplane navigations devices because the voice would stand out from that of the male pilots.
It's also a recurring theme in pop culture, from the computer in the TV show Star Trek and the movie Alien, to the artificial intelligence character in the video game Halo, which is where the digital assistant in Windows 10 gets its name.
In fact, off the top of my head I can only think of two examples of fictional AI that had a "male" voice - Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S and KITT from Knight Rider. There are undoubtedly more -- answers on a postcard, please -- but my mind is a blank after those two.
Oh, wait, I just remembered about HAL 9000 (how the heck did I forget about HAL?).
So I've already proved to myself that fictional AI has better gender diversity than what we see in the real world. That's a pretty sad state of affairs.
Let me be clear though, I doubt that a technology-driven male gaze pervading tech firms is the only reason behind this army of unisex digital servants. I'm certain that there's lashings of marketing influence, focus group data, cultural norms, and "doing what others have done rather than reinvent the wheel" going on. And it's pervading tech at an alarming rate. Just the other day I fitted up a Nest smoke alarm and a Foscam IP camera, both of which talked at me with "female" voices.
If I were simply a tech consumer, I might only find it a little odd that all these digital servants are "female." But when I factor in issues such as gender disparity and the fact that tech sectors such as gaming are suffering from some severe gender-related issues, this is when things start taking the turn for the worrying.
Take just a small subset such as graphics cards. I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a graphics card that didn't come in a box that had a "female" wearing what can only be described as "lingerie battle-armor" printed on it (has that ever been "a thing" at any point in history? I doubt it.). It's like the packaging has been designed to specifically target the adolescent teenagers from the 1985 movie Weird Science.
I certainly hope that when it comes to bots and digital assistants of the future that tech companies don't make the same mistakes that the gaming sector made. There, the problem of inequality allowed things to get to a point where not only was the sexism and bias not seen as a problem, but it becomes such a norm that there was a backlash when it was pointed it how bad the problem had become.
Not only is diversity essential, but it's important that these digital assistants can cater for the needs of all users, and not be an unconscious reflection of the wants, needs, and desires of their creators.

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The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman

In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA.She calculated the trajectory of man's first trip to the moon, and was such an accurate mathematician that John Glenn asked her to double-check NASA's computers. To top it off, she did it all as a black woman in the 1950s and '60s, when women at NASA were not even invited to meetings.
                   And you've probably never heard of her.
Meet Katherine Johnson, the African-American woman who earned the nickname "the human computer" at NASA during its space race golden age.
An upcoming movie called Hidden Figures will celebrate her life and those of her black female colleagues, all of whom did important work against unbelievable odds but whose stories have gone largely unknown. The movie, set to come out in January 2017, will feature Taraji P. Henson as Johnson and music by Pharrell Williams.

In interviews, Johnson, now 97, remembers how her brilliant calculations—which she did largely by hand—forced NASA to accept her.
  "I just happened to be working with guys," she said, "and when they had briefings I asked permission to go. They said, 'The girls don't usually go.' I said, 'Is there a law?' And they said, 'No.' So then my boss said, 'Let her go.'"
So she went. And, with her help, NASA went to the moon.

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Call For Breast Ironing To Be Criminal Offence

There are concerns more than a thousand women have been subjected to a practice known as "breast ironing" in Britain.
The ritual, which was originally carried out in parts of Africa, involves young girls having their breasts beaten, burnt and massaged in order to stop them developing.
The aim is to make women less attractive to the opposite sex so that they focus on school work.
It is almost always carried out by a girl's mother, in the privacy of their own home.
One woman, who we have called Lara, told Sky News she was subjected to mutilation when she reached adolescence.
She said: "They put the spatula on the fire and then they press it on the breast and yes, it hurts.
"Then it goes weak, it's like melting, fat melting and you can feel the breast going back... one of my breasts is bigger than the other one."
It is thought as many as a thousand girls may have suffered this violent mutilation while living in Britain.
A Freedom of Information request by the Conservative MP Jake Berry found almost a quarter of children's services are not trained to deal with the practice, whilst 15% of police forces were unaware it even existed.
Breast ironing is a secretive and brutal form of mutilation.
Heated objects are used to burn children's breasts. Many then have bands tied tightly around their chests.
Experts believe the ritual can cause cysts, abscesses, even breast cancer.
Geraldine Yenwo, the founder of Came Women and Girls Development Organisation, told Sky News: "A lot of them have inverted nipples, they're not able to breast feed their children.
"Emotionally and psychologically, your self-esteem is very badly affected. Physically, some of them have one large and one flattened breast."
Mr Berry is calling on the Government to make breast ironing a criminal offence.
As yet, not a single person in the UK has been convicted of the crime.
In recent years there has been a lot of awareness raised about female genital mutilation.
However, campaigners insist there also needs to be focus on breast ironing, before it becomes a more widespread problem.

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